Eliot Spitzer’s political rebirth, like Anthony Weiner’s, has gained headlines for the candidate’s past sexual peccadilloes. But voters willing to forgive Spitzer for the prostitution scandal that sank his governorship...

New York’s public-employee-pension costs are gobbling up ever more of state and municipal budgets. But while taxpayers are still digging the pension funds out of their massive 2008-09 investment losses,...

In his Sept. 9 address before Congress, President Obama noted that litigation “may be contributing” to increasing health-care costs and promised to fund “demonstration projects” in the states to improve...